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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79FHD02

1978-10-11 ALBION, New Jersey, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

RYAN ST-3KR · N48928

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

ALBION

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002169

Total time

5,003 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,150

Age

51

Cause factors

  • 64/A/07 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 4143. Source file NTSB_1978_3_4143.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.